4/11/2023 0 Comments Generalities and particulars![]() Their next step, however, is to destroy the authority of the senses and understanding, whilst we invent and supply them with assistance.ģ8. For they roundly assert that nothing can be known we, that but a small part of nature can be known by the present method. Our method and that of the skeptics agree in some respects at first setting out: but differ most widely and are completely opposed to each other in their conclusion. But they are immeasurably different for the one merely touches cursorily the limits of experiment, and particulars, whilst the other runs duly and regularly through them the one from the very outset lays down some ahstract and useless generalities, the other gradually rises to those principles which are really the most common in nature.ģ7. ![]() Each of these two ways begins from the senses and particulars, and ends in the greatest generalities. The other constructs its axioms from the senses and particulars, by ascending continually and gradually, till it finally arrives at the most general axioms, which is the true but unattempted way.Ģ2. The one hurries on rapidly from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms and from them as principles and their supposed indisputable truth derives and discovers the intermediate axioms. There are and can exist but two ways of investigating and discovering truth. For nature is only subdued by submission, and that which in contemplative philosophy corresponds with the cause, in practical science becomes the rule.ġ9. ![]() Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect. And as instruments either promote or regulate the motion of the hand, so those that are applied to the mind prompt or protect the understanding.ģ. Effects are produced by the means of instruments and helps, which the understanding requires no less than the hand. The unassisted hand, and the understanding left to itself, possess but little power. Excerpts from the Original Electronic Text at the web site the Hanover Historical Texts Project.ĪPHORISMS ON THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND THE EMPIRE OF MAN.Ģ.
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